10 Panel LCD Displays

Alien54 writes "As seen on the Website: 9X Media offers the most complete line of multiple monitor products in the world including: patent-pending X-Top expandable multi-monitor displays that support from 2 up to 30 flat panels, X-Wall Video Walls, Multi-Screen servers, workstation grade computers, multi-head video cards and Multi-screen management software. Design your own configurations. I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display."

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Productivity

Remember... Multiple Monitors Increases Productivity [slashdot.org]
*looks at 10 panel display*
WHOA!
His productivity's way off the charts!

I would love

A complete circular one of these, completley surrounding me, it'd be like another world. How long is it till they bring out films that are filmed from all angles for complete immersion?

Cool

Now with a few TV tuner cards and some PC I can watch all of my favourite TV channels at once :)

Rus

Off the website

The revolutionary new Matrox Parhelia-512 high-fidelity GPU delivers a new level of visual quality, excellent performance and a wide range of innovative technologies. Parhelia-512 is an 80 million transistor, 0.15, 2D, 3D and DVD/video GPU with a true 256-bit DDR memory interface providing over 20 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of raw memory bandwidth. This AGP device supports unified frame buffers up to 256MB in size and integrates two RAMDACs, a TV encoder and support for dual TMDS transmitters. Designed to surpass the expectations of the most demanding professional users and PC enthusiasts, Parhelia-512 has three major goals: to dramatically increase the quality of all aspects of visualization, to sustain high performance for the most complex and demanding graphics rendering and to deliver a number of innovative and substantive features.
Looks like Matrox has found a neche mark for high performance multiple monitor graphics cards [matrox.com]

Do you get the feeling...

...that CmdrTaco posted this story in the hope that the company might send him some product as a thank you?

The question is though

Just how many complete pr0n/flight sim freaks are there out there with $155,799 to blow on these screens.

wow..

Anyone remember the flight sim one [chello.nl]?

I think it just got owned...

Gah now I want one... put it on my entire desk...
/me drools

Low vertical resolution,

The image processor handles only 1024 pixels vertical resolution. When you use the 20.1" version you get instead of 2x1200 pixels native only 1024 pixels visable. That will be an ugly screen. For pictures okay, but not for text displays. Stock brokers need a high resolution, and that are the people willing to pay for this kind of screens.

Patent pending?

It supprises me that things still can be patent pending with the whole "let 'em patent it now, whether they deserved it or not is the courts decision" attitude.

It just goes to show, even when all time consuming attention to detail is bypassed by sheer laziness that burocracy will always find a way to slow things down to their healthy speed.

10 LCD resolution?

ten twenty-four... hundred

10 LCD Display.

I'm sorry, but there are a lot cooler ways to spend 200 grand then on a 10 LCD display.

You can't see the join

Drooling over that?

Yuk! Look at those ugly borders!

This one [screentechnology.com] is much better. Unique in fact - they use lenses to craftily spread the pixels out, covering the panel edges..

Rods and Cones vs Pixels?

Lets see... A fully decked out x9 system has about 94371840 pixels. How many rods and cones can there possibly be in a human eye? 10^14 neurons in the brain, brain is 3 dimensional and the size of my two fists, retina is 2dimensional and fits in the back of my eyeball.... I think we are going to start making monitors that add pixels to your eyes soon.

Talk about overpriced...

Considering that their most basic entry - a 2x15" system - costs $2399, I would have to say that they obviously don't plan to sell many of these...

I can go on eBay and buy 15" LCD monitors for $200 a piece (or less) and that for another $200 I can get a custom aluminum monitor chassis built, these things are nothing but very overpriced toys...

price tags excessive?

yeah these things look cool.. but comeon.. $10,700 for 3 wide 20' digitial? And look at the brightness and contrast ratings - all well below mid to higher end units available today. You can go buy 3 formac 20" platinums for 4k (or even cheaper with other brands), and they fit together quite closely (disclaimer: I have 2). In fact, there are other brands such as planar whos units are cased even better for edge to edge contact. And if you *really* need to stack them, I'm sure you can build a custom housing for vastly cheaper. Also dont forget that many video cards allow you to turn the monitor around the tall way as well.

LCD means "liquid crystal display"

So "LCD Display" is redundant.

Top Down Shooters...

Man, it'd be great to flip this bastard on end and play Mars Matrix or any arcade-perfect top down port! You'd have to stand a block away though.

Droool

I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display.

You better be careful. Drooling over electrical equipment is bad for your health.

I think this is a hoax

Just like the other site [go-l.com], which has been debunked. [plex.us]

I could be wrong though. But the design and the feel of the whole site is totally unprofessional.

Article or Advertisement?

YOU DECIDE!

Why a bezel?

Why does there need to be a bezel between the LCD panels? Is it possible make LCDs where the glass from one panel will touch the glass from the next? Granted, at that point you're no longer talking about creating a system from off-the-shelf components, but if I'm about to spend $150k on a setup like this, I hope that price will include *some* cusomization.

At the risk of being a curmudgeon

Nice flat panels and all, but haven't macs been able to do this since, like, forever. Does nobody else remember Radius Pivot monitors. Full A3 resolution! Rotatable monitor that maintains orientation of the image. The MacOS supported multiple monitors for as long as I can remember (System 6?). I remember an early version of F-18 demoing at macworld with a 3 monitor setup, and I think we managed to trick out a 9500 with PCI video cards for a museum installation once.

Since most of us don't have 200 grand...

...to waste on 10 monitors, can someone please mod the other 8 redundant? ;)

For less money...

You could buy a projector or large plasma screen for less money, and it would be roughly the same size. Or, as others suggested, make your own out of 17" LCD screens and a custom frame, would cost a lot less than the 150,000 theyre asking for their top end system.

To run that thing would also put a lot of strain on your system, (large amount of memory to hold all screen resources etc) but I guess you would only use it if you felt you needed it, and then the tradeoff would be worth it.

But yeah, just get a projector or large screen, comes with no stupid borders too.

Application

Surely this sort of stuff is more for managing multiple displays in airports and train stations than the business user?

Alternative multi-monitor system

I recommend the Ergotron [ergotron.com] Paraview stand system over the 9X Media setup. With Ergotron, you can buy your own inexpensive LCD's to make your multi-monitor setup the way you like it. I have been using the 33-095-200 with three Samsung [cnet.com] 191T, and really like it. This option is a few thousand less than the 9X setup and works just as well.

Err

wasn't this already on /. months ago

What's in the bezel, anyway?

If LCDs could be stacked side by side without any bezel, it should allow creating very large screen. It might also reduce costs of existing screens since I believe the cost of creating an LCD is worse than linear in its size.

So - exactly why do LCD displays require a surrounding bezel? I'd expect that for for both strength and connections it should be possible to attach to the LCD from behind. Or at least reduce the width of the bezel to something much lower (say, 1mm).

Hoax

This looks strikingly similar to the Liebermann Inc [go-l.com] hoax [plex.us].

Why the photoshop jobs? You'd think a company capable of making these devices might be a little interested in actually proving their existence.

I.E., be wary which amateurish websites you make $10000+ credit card transactions with.

I need to lay down for a while

10 screens...*getting faint*

And you can hook it up on your Earth Simulator

That's Really special and all, but there are only a couple dozen computers on the planet that could handle this.

per screen resolution up to 3840 x 2400
So 10 screens as they show is a resolution of 19,200 x 4800. That's 92 Megapixels. That's 117 times as many pixels as a 1024x768 display.

All of a sudden your Geforce whatever is looking a little lame.
It's still pretty cool.

10 Panel LCD *OR* 2005 Ford GT40?

Let's put things into perspective...

Would you rather have a 10 panel LCD system or a brand new 2005 Ford GT40 [fordvehicles.com]?

I've got a bucket of change I'm saving for the GT40. I'm going to buy a used one when they're one year old. Not sure how, but I am.

Do you really need a special company for this?

At my place of work we set up multi-monitor systems all the time. We make 12 monitor "video walls", and every one of our desktop systems have Matrox Millenium g450's with dual heads. It's really not that difficult.

Gundam linear-cockpit!

Getting closer. All it needs is a nice computer chair suspended in a spherical surrounding display.

How's that for a FPS? :)

Over-rated

This surely isn't breaking news. Multi-monitor displays have been in vogue on trading desks for nearly ten years.

We used STB multi-monitor cards back in the mid 90s, but by the time they inexplicably dropped the line (and subsequently imploded), a few flat-panel vendors had started supporting multi-monitor displays from a single video card.

Why not just do a Projection Array.

When you can pick up descent and cheap DLP 1024x768 Rear projection displays that can do 2000 ansi, why not just use a nice rear projector for your desktop wall.

Additionally if you want more resolution or immersion, buy a few rear projectors and use a circling curtain screen (Can be made with sheets even)

Not only would you have a seamless display, but it would be cheaper, and have a larger screen.

Many of our techs have used rear projectors for large display projects - even tiling them for seamless displays.

Also with the quality of even the low cost models (under $2000) you can make a quite impressive desktop for yourself. Especially when your eye stops being able to discern the pixels at certain distance - even if you are just using a 1024x768 projector for a flight sim or other immersion project.

I would recommend trying rear projection technology, and if you want the display to come at you, use a screen like the 'floating displays that were on here a month ago' and make the rear projection devices into front projection.

So instead of wasting $50,000 just pick up a couple of rear projection devices (LCD or DLP) and you can get a nice large display with a credible resolution.

Pricing

I'm wondering about the pricing of these two ultra high resoultion monitor systems.

10 x 20.8"
Digital Color

10 x 20.8"
Digital Grayscale

Both offered for $63,599. Anybody know why one would choose a grayscale screen over a color screen offered at the same price?

Aggregate Resolution

The "Aggregate Resolution" appears dodgy. Two rows of five 3840x2400 monitors should be 19200x4800, not 12800x1024. If I was paying a quarter million Australian dollars I'd like to think I'd know a little better what I'm actually getting.

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Beautiful and amazing. Can you imagine flying a flight simulator on a 10 screen setup? Now - the challenge is how to convince the wife we really need this for our home?

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